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Black screen after update 16.04

Asked by Henry Folorunsho

After update last night restarted laptop am getting a black screen saying /dev/sda1 unexpected inconsistency run fsck manually

Busy box v1.22.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.22.0-15ubuntu1) built-in shell (ash)
Enter help for list of built in command
Initramfs

Please kindly assist
Ubuntu 16.04

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

Boot into a live system from an installation DVD or a bootable USB stick with the installer kit in the "Try Ubuntu without installing" mode and perform a full file system check on /dev/sda1

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Henry Folorunsho (henryxav) said : 		#2

please kindly advice on how to perform a full system check while booting with try installing ubuntu with live cd

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#3

use the command

sudo fsck /dev/sda1

from inside a terminal window in a live system.

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Henry Folorunsho (henryxav) said : 		#4

Thanks

Here is the output

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fsck /dev/sda1
fsck from util-linux 2.27.1
e2fsck 1.42.13 (17-May-2015)
/dev/sda1 is mounted.
e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting.

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Henry Folorunsho (henryxav) said : 		#5

sorry /dev/sda1 was mounted
please here is output

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fsck /dev/sda1
fsck from util-linux 2.27.1
e2fsck 1.42.13 (17-May-2015)
/dev/sda1 contains a file system with errors, check forced.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found. Fix<y>?

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Henry Folorunsho (henryxav) said : 		#6

Thank you Manfred i was able to solved the problem with the command am very very grateful